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Ideas for the Network Age

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Supernova Forum 2010: Perestroika will be held July 29-30, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.

For nine years, the leading technologists, entrepreneurs, business executives, investors, and policy-makers have come to Supernova for strategic insights on our increasingly interconnected world. Our 2010 event will be hosted on the campus of our partner, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Supernova Forum 2010 will feature:

  • Insightful sessions on topics such as Networked Business Innovation, Institutional Transformation, Can Social Save Media?, The Evolving Digital Ecosystem, The Privacy Conundrum, and Scaling Startups.
  • Our interactive and dynamic Challenge Session roundtables.
  • A special tech policy forum featuring experts and policy-makers from Washington DC.
  • A stunning collection of Pecha Kucha lightning talks.
  • An afternoon unconference, at which our amazing participants will lead discussions.

The forum will bring together a unique group of technology thought leaders with expert academics and influential government officials, plus the networking Supernova is renowned for. Find out why so many attendees call Supernova one of the best conferences they've ever attended.

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Intellectual Depth

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Supernova is co-hosted by Wharton, ranked the #1 global business school by FT. Faculty like entrepreneurship expert Raffi Amit share insights you won't get elsewhere.

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Supernova in Pictures

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Here's how our graphic recorder, Jonny Goldstein, sees the Supernova Forum 2010 themes. Jonny's live illustrations will enhance the conversations at this year's event.

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Compelling Ideas

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Supernova forces you to think ahead of the curve.

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More Than a Conference

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Supernova is an ongoing conversation among thought leaders from business, technology, and government.

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Powerful Networking

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Supernova brings together a dynamic mix of participants in a highly interactive environment.

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Consistently Innovative

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From blogs in 2002 to Second Life in 2005 to Google Wave in 2009, Supernova has always leveraged technologies to innovate.

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The Event for the Network Age

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Supernova is the only conference that spans the business, technology, and policy impacts of pervasive networks.

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Where Thought Leaders Gather

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The brightest minds of the Network Age, such as Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Wikipedia head Jimi Wales, gather at Supernova.

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The Conference That Makes You Think

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Supernova is all about actionable ideas and productive contacts.

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The world is changing. Shouldn't conferences change too?

Attention is the scarce resource of the Network Age. While other events use the same old formats, we've rethought Supernova from the ground up, redoubling our emphasis on actionable ideas and productive networking. Supernova Forum 2010 will be more condensed, more participatory, and substantially more affordable than prior Supernova events.

Highlights from Supernova 2009


Jonathan Zittrain: Beware the Rise of Closed Platforms

danah boyd: Identity and Perception

Kevin Werbach interviews Alec Ross, Craig Newmark and Jimmy Wales

Chris Anderson: Atoms Are The New Bits

John Hagel on Employees With Passion

Catharine Hays on the Future of Advertising

Peter Guber: Entertainment in the Network Age

Rashmi Sinha, Dave McClure, Christine Herron and Bruce Jenett: Startups, Up From The Ashes

JP Rangaswami on Connections in the Network Age

Susan Wu, Nicole Lazzaro and Amy Jo Kim: Fun with Fun

Anna-Christina Douglas: Frontiers of Real-Time Collaboration

Tim O'Reilly and Dick Costolo: Going With The Flow

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Visual Notes from Thursday afternoon Supernova conversations

Leave A Comment | matthewwakeman | July 30th, 2010 | Uncategorized

Some of the visual notes from the afternoon sessions have been posted to Flickr. Each of these will open a larger-size version at the site. The Flickr photoset is here.
The Human Side of Technology – led by @heathr and…

Live Streaming from Supernova Forum 2010

Leave A Comment | Kevin Werbach | July 30th, 2010 | Uncategorized

We will be streaming Supernova general sessions today through UStream. You can find the stream, and selected clips from last year’s event, on the Supernova home page.

Supernova in the Philly Inquirer

1 Comment | Kevin Werbach | July 15th, 2010 | Uncategorized

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article earlier this week about the upcoming Supernova Forum 2010. It focused on how companies that are competitors in the marketplace and public policy debates are willing to share the stage and sponsor list at Supernova.…

How Gen Y and Tech are Changing History

2 Comments | Howard Greenstein | July 12th, 2010 | Strategic Change

Take a few minutes and watch this video of Jared Cohen from the US State Department. In it, he discusses how technology’s spread to different countries is important for our diplomatic and economic future. This piece fits in quite well…

Supernova Video: Jeff Jarvis and the New Openness

1 Comment | Howard Greenstein | July 1st, 2010 | Uncategorized

At the Personal Democracy Forum I spoke with Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine blogger and associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at CUNY.

When we talked about the Supernova theme of Peristroika,  Jarvis noted “The Internet changes the structures we see,…

Supernova Video: David Weinberger on Perestroika

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | June 17th, 2010 | Supernova2010, Video

During Personal Democracy Forum 2010, David Weinberger talked to Supernovahub’s Howard Greenstein about the theme of Perestroika, the changing of rules at “all levels of the stack except the very technical protocols.” Weinberger noted that rules and assumptions are changing…

Supernova Policy Day

Leave A Comment | Kevin Werbach | May 20th, 2010 | Uncategorized

Supernova has a long history of bridging the divide between the technology and policy communities. We’ve had numerous government participants and speakers, including leaders from the White House, FCC, Department of Energy, and State Department last year. And we’ve held…

Infrastructure and Platforms

2 Comments | Kevin Werbach | May 7th, 2010 | Uncategorized

There will be a session at the Supernova Forum on “Evolving Digital Infrastructure: Everything is a Platform.” As often happens, I wasn’t entirely sure what I had in mind when I defined the topic. I just had a sense there…

Supernova Forum 2010

Leave A Comment | Kevin Werbach | May 3rd, 2010 | Upcoming Supernova Events

We’re pleased to announce Supernova Forum 2010: Perestroika, to be held July 30, 2010 at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA.

Supernova always seeks to stay ahead of the curve. When we started in 2002, open wireless access, crowdsourced event wikis,…

Broadband Strategy Week’s Interview with Verizon’s Paul Brigner

Leave A Comment | Howard Greenstein | December 17th, 2009 | Changing Networks, Video

David Weinberger’s Broadband Strategy Week interview with Paul Brigner from the Supernova Conference.

Brigner, in Weinberger’s summary, “says what he would tell the Broadband Strategy Initiative: Build on our this country’s current success providing access to the Internet. Do no harm (=…